Course description and aims

This course comprehensively presents various issues which have been charged to civil and environmental engineering to solve, for example, global environmental problems as well as local community planning problem. It also includes lectures on the latest initiatives in technology, policy, and planning theory. Students will understand that civil and environmental engineering is an academic system concerned with the methodology of technologies and policies for constructing a secure, safe, and sustainable human society and the philosophy of planning.

Student learning outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:- View all the aspects included in civil and environmental engineering as one whole. - Explain the basic technical, policy, and planning theories of civil and environmental engineering.

- To understand the fundamental theory on landscape from citizens' perspective

Class 7

Seashore protection and design: toward the improvement of quality of life

- To think about what kind of meaning would be attached to landscape

Class 8

Decision-making for public

- To understand the fundamentals for the process of public planning and the way of decision-making.

Class 9

Energy consumption and sustainability in urban areas

- Understanding energy consumption and sustainability in urban areas

Class 10

Urban transport infrastructure and environment

- To understand the outlines: (1) the role of cities and traffic problems, (2) Next-generation vehicle and transport system management.

Class 11

Ground motions by crustal earthquakes and education for disaster prevention

- To understand ground motions and disaster by crustal earthquake under urbanized area
- To understand the role of education for disaster prevention

Class 12

Frontiers of technological development of structure monitoring

- To understand brief overview of frontiers of technological development of structure monitoring

Class 13

Investigating ground disaster from the viewpoint of soil and water dynamics

- To understand the foundations of ground disaster generation

Class 14

Ground improvement technology for soil disaster mitigation

- To understand the fundamentals of Ground improvement technology for soil disaster mitigation.

Class 15

Aging of urban infrastructure

- To understand the current situation of aging in urban infrastructure and the fundamentals for countermeasure.

Textbook(s)

Lecture materials will be provided at OCWi.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Particularly not

Assessment criteria and methods

-Small quiz during the class (3%*15=45%)-Three assignments (20%*3=60%)Note 1: If the total sum exceeds 100%, the score will be rounded to 100%.Note 2: Assignment categories are 2-5th class: Water and soil environment, 6-1-: Landscape and planning, 11-15: Secure and safety

Related courses

CVE.N310 ： Special Lectures on Infrastructure and Environment

CVE.N301 ： History of Civil Engineering and Engineering Ethics

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

None in particular.

Office hours

Not fixed office hours. Therefore, please contact the organizer or each lecturer in advance by email for the appointment.